gcc and compiling speed

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> Note that when someone like Gerald provides us with preprocessed C++
> sources of his app that used to compile fast, and then compiled slow
> and took lots of memory, people spent significant amounts of time
> reducing the memory usage and compile time of his application

Indeed, Theo, you should _really_ give it a try and make a self-contained
report.

As an example, below are some of the changes made to GCC in response to
me providing a testcase:

  http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-01/msg00892.html
  http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-01/msg00905.html
  http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-01/msg00670.html
  http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-01/msg00886.html
  http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-01/msg01539.html
  http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-01/msg01630.html
  http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-01/msg01880.html
  http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-01/msg02038.html
  http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-01/msg02055.html
  http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-01/msg02072.html
  http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-01/msg02211.html
  http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-01/msg02279.html
  http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-01/msg01788.html
  http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-01/msg03041.html
  http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-02/msg01930.html
  http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-02/msg01979.html

Gerald
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